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I never know what people are going to like so maybe it will become the next TikTok instead, or someone will make a new Quibi that I also won't use or understand :)
That's personal preference obviously, and people are free to spend their time how they want, but I think the loss of attention span is a culture-scale problem now and excising these companies from our lives is a necessary treatment.
I hope Quibi folds permanently and we salt the earth where it stood.
I just found this on Google but the first page of this paper explains it a little better: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~mgoldman/Section0402.pdf
>You're describing P-value hacking
Here's an example of what can happen when you take a huge corpus of data and throw an equally huge number of hypotheses at it to see what sticks: https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-choc...
tl;dr: he "proved" chocolate causes weight loss by comparing chocolate- and non-chocolate-eaters on a very high number of health indicators.
That also introduces the multiple testing problem: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Multiple_comparisons_problem
The more statistical tests you run against a set of data (EDIT: the more variables you test against a dataset), the higher the chance you get a statistically significant result from random error alone.